Base-ball-game apparatus.



No. 811,159. PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906 J. P. MAGENIS. BASE BALL GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 5. 1905.

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James .Pfloyenis NTT l D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES P. MAGENIS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BASE-BALL-GAIVI E APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed October 5, 1905. Serial No. 281,411.

One object of the invention is to provide a game of this sort so designed and constructed that thereby the actual game of base-ball may be so closely simulated as to reproduce the same degree of enthusiasm and delight experienced in witnessing the real game.

Another object is to provide a device of this sort that will be of few parts, simple of construction and operation, of convenient size, and inexpensive.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the mechanism of the game.

Therein Figure 1 represents'the amusement device in plan. Fig. 2 represents a transverse central section thereof, taken in the plane indicated by the line 2 2. Fig. 3 represents asimilar section of a portion of the device, taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3. Fig. 4 represents in detail one of the parts of the device.

Any suitable material may be used in the construction of this device, but that which best lends itself thereto is cardboard of a firm texture.

The device also maybe made of any desired size, but is referably made no larger than represented mthe drawings above referred to.

In the drawings the body of the device is represented as a rectangular card 10, though the shape of said card may be other than rectangular, if preferred. At the center of this card, as the most convenient location, is a chance-indicator consisting of a row of characters, preferably in circular form, to represent the various events of a game of base-ball, and a pointer 11., pivotally mounted within the center of this circle. To better distinguish the different positions of the pointer, the graduation of the circle of representive characters is made by means of equally-spaced quadrilaterals 12. A representative character is placed opposite each one of these quadrilaterals and another opposite each intervening space. Apertures 13, 14, 15, and 16 are formed in the card 10 and are preferably located near the middle of the sides of the card and are designed to represent the bases. At the aperture 13 is located the letter H to indicate home base, while at the apertures 1 1, 15, and 16 are located the numerals 1, 2, and to indicate, respectively, first, second, and third bases. These characters designating the bases are those represented on the chance-indicator with the O for out alternating therewith.

Partycolored objects, such as disks of cardboard, are provided that the different colors thereon maybe made to appear through said apertures in accordance with the indications of the chance-indicator. These partycolored objects may be associated with the card in any suitable manner to effect the purpose stated; but the preferable form thereof and mode of attachment are those illustrated and consist in pivoting circular disks 17 to the under side of the card. These disks preferably bear three colors, which for convenience may be red, blue, and yellow, applied thereto in three equal sectors, as indicated, respectively, in the drawing by R, B and Y. These disks,as well as the pointer, are for convenience pivoted to the card by means of eyelets, as shown. To enable the pointer to be more readily hit in spinning it, a distancepiece or collar may be inserted between it and the card, or a flange may be formed about the opening in the pointer to serve this same purpose, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The disks are preferably so located that they project slightly beyond. the edge of the card for greater convenience in rotating them upon their pivots.

Ascore pocket or receptacle for a tally-sheet may be formed by attaching to the front or back of the card at one of the upper corners a piece of cardboard 1.8. The attachment is preferably made along the inner edges, thereby making the pocket open at the top and side. Being thus formed, if tally-sheets of exact size are not at hand a corner of a sheet of paper of any size may be inserted in the pocket and the protruding portions thereof torn off against the outer edges of the pocket. Through the cardboard 18 are formed openings, preferably two parallel longitudinal ones, through which the score may be entered upon the tally-sheet, and. on the outside of the pocket, conveniently upon the strip between said openings, may be placed the score indications, (represented in the drawings by the numerals 1-9.) The openings in the scoredisk at home base to show the color of the nine which gets the toss and comes first to the bat, and set the other disks to show yellow to signify empty bases. Then put in a fresh tally-sheet in the score-pocket and spin the pointer. By referring to Fig. 1 of the the drawings the method of playing can be readily followed. The game is assumed to be between the Reds and the Blues, with the Reds at the bat in the final inning. The pointer has been spun twice in this inning and one of the Reds is on second base and one out has been counted against them. Supposing the pointer to be spun again and to stop at a figure 1, then the disk 17 at first base will be turned to show red through the aperture. By spinning the pointer again it may come to rest at 2, indicating that the batter is to take second base, and to show this the disk at first base must be turned to yellow, the disk at second base left at red, and the disk at third base turned to red, the man formerly on second having been forced to third and the man on third having been forced home, thereby counting one home run for the Reds. If on the next spinning the pointer should stop at an O that would count a second out for the Reds. Then if at the next spinning of the pointer it should stop at H, that would signify a home run for the batter, which would bringin the man on second and the man on third. Thereby score three more points for the Reds. Then if upon the next spinning of the pointer it should stop at an O, that would make three outs for the Reds. Therefore, side out. A figure 4: should be then marked on the tally-sheet through the upper opening of the score-pocket above the figure 9 on the middle strip of the pocket. The score would then stand Reds, twelve; Blues,

slx.

In the arrangement of the representative characters on the indicator every alternate one is 0, thereby making the number of outs equal the base-hits, while the chances of a home run are as one to nineteen, the chance of third base hits as two to eighteen, the chance of second-base hits as three to seventeen, and the chance of first-base hits as four to sixteen. This arrangement of characters may be changed as desired or even replaced by others, and the elements of the device and method of mani ulation may be altered or varied, without eparting from the invention as claimed.

The invention claimed is 1. An amusement device consisting of a card having thereon a chance-indicator and having apertures therethrough and at each aperture a party-colored object for presenting different colors through the aperture in accordance with the manifestations of the indicator.

2. An amusement device consisting of a card having at its center a pointer and a row of characters to be indicated thereby and having apertures about its periphery and at each aperture a party-colored card for presenting different colors through the aperture in accordance with the characters indicated by the pointer.

3. An amusement device consisting of a card having at its center a pointer and a row of characters to be indicated thereby and having apertures about its periphery and at each aperture a party-colored card for presenting different colors through the aperture in accordance with the characters indicated by the pointer and having a score-pocket for receiving the tally-sheet.

4. An amusement device consisting of a card having at its center a pivoted pointer and a circle of characters to be indicated thereby, said characters representing acts in a game of base-ball, and having apertures representing the bases in such game, and a party-colored disk rotatably mounted at each aperture to show one of its colors at a time therethrough.

5, An amusement device representing a game of base-ball, consisting of a card having thereon a chance-indicator representing acts in said game, and having recorders at the base locations movable in response to the indication of said indicator and having a pocket for a tally-sheet in whose front wall are apertures through which to mark the score on the tally-sheet.

6. A base-ball-game apparatus consisting of a square card having apertures at its sides representing the locations of the bases and having a circle of characters at its center rep resenting different events in a game of base ball, a pivoted pointer at the center of said circle, tricolored disks pivoted to the under side of the card, one at each of said apertures, whereby one color thereof at a time may be made to appear through the aperture, and a piece of cardboard secured by its inner edges to said card at one corner thereof and having parallel openings therein and bearing the score indications and spaced from the card sufi iciently to permit a tally-sheet to be inserted between it and the card so that the score may be marked thereon through said openings.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J ANlES P. MAGE NIS. Witnesses B. J. PERRY, JOSEPH W. MoCoNNELL. 

